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  • Honouring the Shadow: Religious Trauma, Worthiness and the Angels with Gracie Navarro

    This month in the Spirit School Collective, we’re honouring the shadow. In this episode, I sit down with one of my favourite people, Gracie Navarro of Graceful Healing. Gracie is a spiritual guide, medium, healer and longtime student of mine. She shares what it was like to grow up in the Jehovah’s Witness faith, believing all spirit was bad and that she would never be worthy of God’s love.

    This is a tender, honest conversation about finding your way back to your own truth without disrespecting the people you love. Gracie shares how she rebuilt her relationship with Creator on her own terms. She also tells some breathtaking stories of angelic intervention, from a truck rolling down a hill to an operating room full of angels.

    In this episode:

    • Gracie’s earliest experiences with spirit, and what happened when she was told her “imaginary friends” weren’t real
    • How fear-based teachings shaped her sense of worthiness, her relationships and her voice
    • Harmonizing old beliefs instead of throwing everything away, and why she refuses to be “bottle-fed” any teaching
    • Marrying into an Indigenous family and seeing religion’s impact on families through a new lens
    • Meeting her guardian angel and recognizing Archangel Michael’s protection throughout her life
    • Why beliefs are so powerful, and what’s the harm in believing in your spirit helpers
    • Connect with Gracie:

      • Instagram: @gracefulhealing_9
      • Website: gracefulhealing.me
      • Facebook: search “Graceful Healing” to request to join her private group
      • Gracie offers soul and spirit guidance readings, virtual and in-person healing sessions, and in-person women’s circles.

        Want to go deeper? Gracie and I are continuing this conversation live in the Spirit School Collective next week.

        all my offerings are on www.daniellesearancke.com 

        51 min
      • Mediumship Capacity, Evidence vs. Messages, and What Filming a TV Show Taught Me

        Recorded three days before my Squamish Medium TV show premieres on APTN, I'm answering six questions that came in from you, my Instagram followers and Spirit School Collective members, about the filming experience and my path in mediumship. I get into what it was like channelling in front of cameras and a crew, whether abilities like mine fade or change over time, my advice for anyone on a spiritual path, and how my thinking on messages versus evidence has evolved. I also share how many intuitives I've mentored since 2017 and what's coming up next, including The Initiation, Spirit Speaks, and where to watch the show.

         

        https://www.daniellesearancke.com/the-initiation

        Register: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spirit-school-store/p/initiation-fall-2026 

        Spirit Speaks (North Vancouver, November 14 to 15) https://www.daniellesearancke.com/vancouver-mediumship-workshop 

        Spirit School Collective Join: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritschoolcollective 

        Free community space: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/freespiritschoolcommunity  Reading Waitlist https://spirit-school.myflodesk.com/danielle-waitlist 

        Spirit School Podcast Main page: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritschoolpodcast

        Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/spirit-school/id1447766702

        Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4w4i78Sb6jsEZw5MyhJgXT  \

        Other

        Private sessions with Danielle: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/danielle-searancke

        Events calendar:

        https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spirit-school-events 

        30 min
      • Stories From My Swampy Cree Reconnection Journey

        In this episode of Spirit School, I'm sharing a few stories from my reconnection journey back to my Swampy Cree culture and my grandmother's traditional territories. Watch on Youtube as this episode is visual https://www.youtube.com/@squamishmedium  


        This one's a little different, less polished, more story time. I talk about following your "point of intrigue" (a piece of advice that's shaped a lot of my life), how a library trip with my kids led me to a book by a Norway House author, and how a prayer for happier stories led me to a rare, out of print book of Swampy Cree name origins I found, of all places, on eBay. I also pull out my tobacco plants for a very visual teaching about space, growth, and what it means to flourish.

         

        In this episode:

        • Following your "point of intrigue" as a way of navigating life
        • A library trip with my kids and a synchronistic book find
        • My connection to elder historian Flora Beardy and author Louis Bird
        • Praying for joyful Swampy Cree stories, and finding The Wishing Bone Cycles on eBay
        • Reading from the book's chapter on personal name origins
        • A teaching from propagating my sacred tobacco for the first time
        • A call for gifted tobacco seeds (I'm down to my last batch)
        •  

          This is a visual episode, if you're listening in audio, come find me on YouTube to see the tobacco plants I'm talking about.

          A reminder that the Squamish Medium TV show airs September 2nd in Cree on APTN Languages and September 14th in English on APTN. We're hosting watch parties every week inside the Spirit School Collective, come join us there.

          https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritschoolcollective - Join the Membership

          https://www.daniellesearancke.com/squamish-medium-tv-show - Follow the TV Show

          https://www.mqup.ca/Books/V/Voices-from-Hudson-Bay3 - Flora Beardy Book

          https://www.goodminds.com/products/all-the-little-monsters-how-i-learned-to-live-with-anxiety - David Robertson Book

          30 min
        • Squamish Medium: The TV Show is Coming!

          After three years of keeping this exciting secret, I'm finally able to share the news. Squamish Medium, my TV show, is premiering September 2 in Cree (Plains) on APTN Languages, and September 14 in English on APTN.

          In this episode I go back to the beginning: mediumship readings at my kitchen table in 2013, launching this podcast in 2018, opening my in person school in 2023, and everything that led to two Indigenous women approaching me 'out of nowhere' with an idea for a TV show.


          I share a bit of what filming was really like, what surprised me most about the experience, and why this show matters to me as a mother, an entrepreneur, and an Indigenous woman reconnecting with my culture.

          🎬 Watch the trailer and learn more: daniellesearancke.com/squamish-medium-tv-show

          📸 Follow the show on Instagram: @squamishmediumtv

          Thank you for growing with me. This podcast started it all.

          25 min
        • Telepathy, Nonspeaking Autism & the Great Awakening

          This one started as a private exchange and became something I knew I had to share.

          Eileen Himel came back into my life this year through a lot of synchronicity and divine orchestration. She works with the nonspeaking autistic community using letter boards, and when the Telepathy Tapes came out I became obsessed. So we did an exchange. She got some mentorship, I got to pick her brain. And then I asked if I could record it.

          I want to have her back for a full interview once you have had a chance to listen and send me your questions. For now, here is our conversation exactly as it happened.

          Go listen to Season 1 of the Telepathy Tapes before or after this episode. Then come back and tell me what you think.

          Follow Eileen Himel: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/enphase_intunewithautism

          TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@autism.get.in.tune
          Podcast Enphase In Tune With Autism: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/enphase-in-tune-with-autism/id1537445799 

          JOIN SPIRIT SCHOOL: Spirit School Collective: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritschoolcollective Free Resources: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritual-development-resources

          Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/spirit-school/id1447766702
          Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4w4i78Sb6jsEZw5MyhJgXT

          28 min
        • Advanced Mediumship, Mentorship, and the Art of Discernment with Maxine Friend

          Maxine Friend has been working internationally as a psychic channel medium and mentor for over 18 years. I have been hearing her name since my very first year of practice in 2013. We finally connected in 2023 and became fast friends, and this conversation is one I have wanted to have publicly for a long time. Maxine recently reached out to me for advanced mediumship mentorship after noticing more and more spirit communication coming through her channeling sessions. What followed were three private sessions that she says transformed her practice by 150%. In this episode we talk about what actually happened, why it happened, and what advanced practitioners need to know about continuing to grow.

           

          ABOUT MAXINE FRIEND Maxine Friend is a psychic channel medium and mentor with 18 years of international experience. Her practice is almost entirely referral based, with clients spanning decades. She channels to very high dimensional realms and works with the Akashic records, ascended masters, and spirit communication.


          SPECIAL JULY OFFERING from Maxine: In celebration of her upcoming wedding, Maxine is offering a very special 60 minute channeled horoscope love reading for the month of July only. This online Zoom session includes a channeled reading paired with your astrological love placements to identify the key points in your chart that can activate and access love. Massively discounted and available July only.

          To book: https://maxinefriend.setmore.com/book
          You will need your date, time, and city and country of birth to complete the reading. Book all of Maxine's offerings: https://maxinefriend.setmore.com/

           

          OIN SPIRIT SCHOOL: Spirit School Collective: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritschoolcollective

          The Initiation, Mediumship Foundations: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/the-initiation
          Free Resources: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritual-development-resources
          Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/spirit-school/id1447766702
          Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4w4i78Sb6jsEZw5MyhJgXT

          #AdvancedMediumship #MediumshipMentorship #MaxineFriend #SpiritSchool #SquamishMedium #Channeling #MediumshipDevelopment #IndigenousMedium #SpiritualDevelopment #EnergeticSovereignty

          24 min
        • The Heart Chakra and Mediumship: Integration, Grief, and the Ethics of This Work

          Part four of the chakra and mediumship series and the one I have been sitting with the longest.

          The heart is the bridge chakra. Everything you did in root, sacral, and solar plexus has to integrate here before it can become service. In this video I share what happened to my mediumship in 2020 when I experienced real grief for the first time and could not do readings for months. I also talk about why ethics and integrity are not the same thing and why both of them live here in the heart.

          If you work with people in grief, if you are a developing medium, or if you have ever felt fractured between what you know to be right and what you are actually doing, this one is for you.

           

          MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

          The Declaration, ethics certification for practitioners in unregulated spaces: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/the-declaration 

          Root Chakra and Mediumship: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/the-development-journal/root-chakra-mediumship-belonging-humiliation-dignity 

          Sacral Chakra and Mediumship: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/the-development-journal/sacral-chakra-mediumship-clairsentience-energy-boundaries 

          Solar Plexus Chakra and Mediumship: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/the-development-journal/solar-plexus-chakra-mediumship-confidence-authority 

           

          LINKS:

          Spirit School Collective: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritschoolcollective 

          Free Spiritual Development Resources: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritual-development-resources 

          Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/squamishmedium/ 

           

          #HeartChakra #MediumshipDevelopment #ChakrasAndMediumship #SpiritSchool #SquamishMedium #Grief #MediumshipEthics #IndigenousMedium #SpiritualDevelopment #EnergyCenters

          16 min
        • I Am a Medium Today Because of Sylvia Browne

          All Podcasts are now Youtube Videos

          I am sharing the origin story of how I became a medium and it starts with a latchkey kid coming home from school in the 1990s, turning on the TV, and watching Sylvia Browne on Montel Williams for the very first time.

          Sylvia Browne was my unofficial theology growing up. I had no religion, no framework, just her on Montel every Wednesday. In this episode I talk about what she meant to me as a teenager, the letter to the universe exercise from The Other Side and Back that genuinely changed my life, and what it felt like to reconnect with her clips during the pandemic and see everything through a completely different lens.

          I cover:

          • How Sylvia sparked a decades long path to mediumship
          • My time with Vancouver Paranormal, EVP recordings, and my first passport trip to Chillingham Castle
          • The letter to the universe exercise and what happened the moment I finished writing it
          • A balanced look at her legacy: trailblazer and cautionary tale
          • How the ethics and trauma informed approach I teach today came directly from what was missing in that era
          • And I want to know: was Sylvia Browne part of your origin story too?
          • Follow @teiganish on Instagram for the Sylvia Browne clips I reference in this episode. The t-shirt I am wearing is from him too and shirts will be available later this year.

            JOIN SPIRIT SCHOOL: Spirit School Collective: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritschoolcollective Free Resources: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritual-development-resources Upcoming Events: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spirit-school-events

            Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/spirit-school/id1447766702 Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4w4i78Sb6jsEZw5MyhJgXT

            27 min
          • The Unseen Helpers Guiding Your Life Right Now

            If you knew who surrounded you, you would never be afraid. In this episode I unpack what that actually means.

            I share how I developed my faith in spirit guides, the moment that faith completely shattered, and what restored it in the span of thirty seconds through undeniable experiences that make this path worth it all.

            I talk about the different realms of unseen helpers, guides, ancestors, inspirers, and the God realm I am still building toward, and what happened at my retreat this year when my guides asked me to introduce them to the room and assured me magic.

            I also share the story of Leonard George of Tsleil-Waututh Nation, an elder who showed up on the edge of my bed at my first retreat in 2023 with two messages that changed the direction of my work entirely.

            Save the date. September 14th. This story is not finished yet.

            I close with Leonard's most beloved story, The Rising of the Spirit. The last four words will stay with you.

            If this topic is landing for you, all of July inside the Spirit School Collective is dedicated to guides. https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritschoolcollective 

             

            29 min
          • The Creator Never Puts a Dream in Your Heart You Cannot Fulfill

            The Creator Never Puts a Dream in Your Heart You Cannot Fulfill

            See pictures with the stories here: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/the-development-journal/a-message-to-the-youth-the-creator-never-puts-a-dream-in-your-heart-you-cannot-fulfill 

            For the first time in as long as I can remember, I do not have a dream I am chasing. So I went looking backward instead of forward.

            In this episode I trace my actual path. My first dream of becoming a teacher at seventeen. The mentors who saw something in me I could not see in myself. My years in motorsports. The decade at the First Nations Health Authority where I became a mother, a medium, and a confident woman all at once. The keynote I recently gave to a youth summit in Squamish. And what it felt like to realize, twenty six years later, that my original dream had already come true.

            I close with a poem from The Wishing Bone Cycle, a Swampy Cree creation story I have come to love.

            26 min

          About Spirit School

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          Since 2013, Danielle Searancke, the Squamish Medium, has been doing the real work: mediumship readings, spiritual development, and building one of the most trusted communities in the field from the ground up.

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